"The Possibility of Liberty"/Free Exchange Talk (10/16/04)

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FREE EXCHANGE
OPERA PLAZA
601 VAN NESS AVE. (TURK & GOLDEN GATE)
Saturday 16 October @ 8PM.

"The Possibility of Liberty", a talk by Michael Cloud

Do you sometimes feel a sense of gloom and foreboding when you

reflect on

today's ever-expanding, ominous Big Government?

Are you sometimes overcome with a sense of "nothing can be done",

futility,

and resignation?

Have you ever looked at how few libertarians there are - how we're

opposed

tooth and claw by tens of millions of statists, with hundreds of

billions of

dollars at their disposal - and felt that freedom in our time is

impossible?

If there were a way out, if we could cut the Gordian Knot of Big

Government,

if freedom in our time were possible, would
come and hear how for yourself?

Michael Cloud will tell you exactly how to break through the

impossibility

into the sunlit "Possibility of Liberty."

"The Possibility of Liberty" offers a Thought-Provoking and Simple

Solution

to the Biggest Barrier to
the Rapid, Massive Growth of the Libertarian Movement - and the path

to

freedom in our time.

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Michael Cloud Bio:

Michael Cloud is the author of _Secrets of Libertarian Persuasion_
(Published, May 2004) Available from:
http://www.theadvocates.org/secrets.html

Michael Cloud is the creator of the "Art of Libertarian Persuasion"
Seminars.

He wrote and produced “The Essence of Political

Persuasion”

Training Audios.

Mr. Cloud writes a column called “Persuasion Power

Points”

which is
published by Advocates for Self-Government twice monthly – and

read by

over
65,000 subscribers.

An accomplished speechwriter and phrase-maker, he has written 456

speeches

for clients. An engaging and powerful speaker, he’s delivered

over 934

speeches to live audiences – including 2 nationally televised
speeches.

In 2000, Michael won the Thomas Paine Award for being the best

Libertarian

Communicator in America.

In 2002, he was the Libertarian candidate for United States Senate

against

Democratic Senator John Kerry.
He garnered 368,304 votes – 19% of the total – the

highest

Libertarian U.S.
Senate vote total and percentage in Libertarian Party history.

In 2002, Michael Cloud and Carla Howell put an Initiative on the
Massachusetts ballot to END the state Income Tax. Their Initiative

earned

885,693 votes – 45.3% of the vote. This was the boldest and

most

effective
Libertarian activism in America in 2002.

Michael Cloud is the co-Founder of the Center for Small Government.

He

writes for and edits “Small Government News” –

which has